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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

phData: Data Engineering

The world we live in today presents larger datasets, more complex data, and diverse needs, all of which call for efficient, scalable data systems. These systems are built on open standards and offer immense analytical and transactional processing flexibility. 2019 - Delta Lake Databricks released Delta Lake as an open-source project.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

I wrote code for drivers on Windows, and started to put a basic observability system in place. EC2 had no observability system back then: people would spin up EC2 instances but have no idea whether or not they worked. With my team, we built the basics of what is now called AWS Systems Manager. I decided to look around.

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Netflix Hack Day?—?November 2019

Netflix Tech

Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. November 2019 was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Building Transactional Systems Using Apache Kafka

Confluent

Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. The database system guarantees that multiple concurrent transactions will appear to the user to be executed one after the other. Upholding each property in a system based on Kafka is tricky but not impossible, as you are about to find out.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

If you had a continuous deployment system up and running around 2010, you were ahead of the pack: but today it’s considered strange if your team would not have this for things like web applications.  We dabbled in network engineering, database management, and system administration. and hand-rolled C -code.

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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

The Pragmatic Engineer

In 2019, Javice was featured on the Forbes “30 under 30” finance list , suggesting she was a high-flying founder: How Charlie Javice appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019. Frank: a software engineer refuses to fake customer data Frank was a student loan startup founded by Charlie Javice in 2016.

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Order Matters: Alibaba’s Transformer-based Recommender System

KDnuggets

Alibaba, the largest e-commerce platform in China, is a powerhouse not only when it comes to e-commerce, but also when it comes to recommender systems research. Their latest paper, Behaviour Sequence Transformer for E-commerce Recommendation in Alibaba, is yet another publication that pushes the state of the art in recommender systems.

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